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-rw-r--r--fs/super.c25
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 7465d436420..68307c02922 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -336,19 +336,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(deactivate_super);
* and want to turn it into a full-blown active reference. grab_super()
* is called with sb_lock held and drops it. Returns 1 in case of
* success, 0 if we had failed (superblock contents was already dead or
- * dying when grab_super() had been called).
+ * dying when grab_super() had been called). Note that this is only
+ * called for superblocks not in rundown mode (== ones still on ->fs_supers
+ * of their type), so increment of ->s_count is OK here.
*/
static int grab_super(struct super_block *s) __releases(sb_lock)
{
- if (atomic_inc_not_zero(&s->s_active)) {
- spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
- return 1;
- }
- /* it's going away */
s->s_count++;
spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
- /* wait for it to die */
down_write(&s->s_umount);
+ if ((s->s_flags & MS_BORN) && atomic_inc_not_zero(&s->s_active)) {
+ put_super(s);
+ return 1;
+ }
up_write(&s->s_umount);
put_super(s);
return 0;
@@ -463,11 +463,6 @@ retry:
destroy_super(s);
s = NULL;
}
- down_write(&old->s_umount);
- if (unlikely(!(old->s_flags & MS_BORN))) {
- deactivate_locked_super(old);
- goto retry;
- }
return old;
}
}
@@ -660,10 +655,10 @@ restart:
if (hlist_unhashed(&sb->s_instances))
continue;
if (sb->s_bdev == bdev) {
- if (grab_super(sb)) /* drops sb_lock */
- return sb;
- else
+ if (!grab_super(sb))
goto restart;
+ up_write(&sb->s_umount);
+ return sb;
}
}
spin_unlock(&sb_lock);